Is a written contract enforceable?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Dhaliwall v Hook Restaurant Ltd., 2021 BCSC 1358 (CanLII):
An enforceable contract requires consideration in exchange for the promise sought to be enforced. Establishing the specific terms of an unwritten contract are particularly challenging: “Unless there is some independent support in the evidence that [an oral agreement] was made, a verbal contract is very difficult to enforce”: Babich v. Babich, 2015 BCPC 175 at para. 17.
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